22 Sep 2020
A face-to-face scoping visit to understand the inclusive education context in Uganda has been replaced by virtual scoping due to Covid-19 restrictions....
22 Sep 2020
The novel cooperation between disabled people’s own organizations and other development organizations, known as TOFI, has been forced to be innovative. Earlier this year several partners in Uganda, Somalia and South Sudan were to travel to Zambia on a study-tour. This tour has gone ahead – in a virtual fashion. ...
22 Sep 2020
Adra undertook a status assessment of Special education needs and disability, conducted in April/May in Jubaland State. ...
22 Sep 2020
Even though COVID-19 has led to shut-downs and problems in Mozambique, several trainings and meetings have been undertaken during the second quarter of TOFI. ...
22 Sep 2020
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by TOFI-South Sudan partners, and is the key achievement for this quarter. In summary, the signing of the MoU lays a platform for effective collaboration among TOFI-SS partners and this has an impact in the discharge of quality of TOFI activities in order to change the living conditions of persons with disabilities in South Sudan. The MoU signing ceremony was held at the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) ...
22 Sep 2020
The period of April-June was heavily characterized by the restrictions imposed over the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The restrictions resulted in the suspension of project activities after the launch and with the first recorded cases of contamination, a state of emergency was decreed over the whole of Niger including isolation of Niamey and restrictive measures such as the closure of schools, prohibition of assembly, social distancing et...
22 Sep 2020
The novel cooperation between disabled people’s own organizations and other development organizations, known as TOFI, has been forced to be innovative. Earlier this year several partners in Uganda, Somalia and South Sudan were to travel to Zambia on a study-tour. This tour has gone ahead – in a virtual fashion. ...
22 Sep 2020
“My name is Oumal Hairou A. I am 21 years old and I am in the 4th grade at the College of Doutchi. Before, I could see, and I was in school until the last year of primary school. That's when I lost my sight. My father is also blind like me. I was told that it is glaucoma and that it is irreparable....
22 Sep 2020
Greetings from Norway’s Minister of International Development, Mr. Dag Inge Ulstein...
07 Feb 2017
"In resource-limited settings, people with disabilities have been left behind in the response to HIV. In the HandiVIH study, scientists have estimated and compared HIV prevalence and associated risk factors between people with and without disabilities. Pic. Sintef Technology and Society is part of the study....
31 Jan 2017
If your answer is “no, not really”, you are not alone. However, very soon you will and have to! Kathmandu was set for a two-day’s seminar for all Norwegian NGOs and their Nepali partners January 16 and 17. The organisers hope to see big changes in the development programs in Nepal.
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02 Nov 2016
Please follow link to report on Business, devleoment and inclusion of persons with disabilities (Fafo) as well as available presentations from the Conference
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17 Nov 2015
Celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 4th of December 2015:
Being a refugee is hard. Being a refugee with a disability is even harder. Globally there are about 8 million displaced persons with disabilities.
How do we ensure the rights of refugees with disabilities? What responsibilities do we have in Norway, both at home and nationally? Why do people who need it more have less access humanitarian aid?
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30 Sep 2015
On Friday September 24 2015, on the 70th Assembly of the UN, the 193 member countries of the UN adopted the the 17 SDGs. The disabilitiy movement has reason to be satisfied by the frequent mention of Persons with disabilities througout the goals. We have asked Ambrose Murangira, the Executive Director of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf to give us some of his thoughts about the new SDGs from an Ugandan perspective. ...
08 Jul 2015
How can cooperation between governments, civil society and privat sector contribute to ensure education for all? On July 6, 2015, national and international representatives were gathered at Oslo Plaza hotel for interesting speeches, critical comments and relevant questions....
07 Jul 2015
Clear recommendations from the conference Partnership for Education to Oslo Education summit, - Commit to ensuring positive discrimination for those children with the largest challenges, as equitable financing does not mean spending the equal amount of money per child. Investments for the most marginalised benefit the whole society, was one of the recommendations.
Nafisa Baboo gave a personal testimonial in her speech to the audiene: Myself ...
01 Jul 2015
Oslo, 6 July 2015: Solutions to the global education crisis do exist, but the quality of those solutions needs to be improved, and increased funding and an innovative approach are also required, say Norwegian organisations and Telenor....
26 Jun 2015
Join the side event of the Oslo Education Summit: Partnering for education.
The Education for Development summit in Oslo represents an opportunity to revitalize the global education agenda, based on the commitments made at the World Education Forum in Korea. Eight Norwegian Civil Society Organizations and the Telenor Group invite all interested parties to setting the scene on the 6th of July through the side event Partnering for Education. The ...
27 Apr 2015
All our thoughts are with the people, friends and partners in Nepal. They all need our help now. And we have a special appeal on behalf of the people with disabilities: Please, leave nobody behind! We will do our best to collect information about the situation and to put relief organisations in contact with Disabled People’s Organisations in Nepal...
10 Feb 2015
Before I was able to open up my shop, I was very dependent on others and always had to ask others for money. Now, I am independent and can manage on my own. I have also noticed that my family and the people in my village have more respect for me now that I am a business woman. Their attitudes to me and my disability have changed and they are now increasingly seeing me for who I am, not simply for my disability, explains Radhika from Baglung in Ne...
05 Feb 2015
3,200 Civil Society Organisations call for ‘no target to be considered met unless met for all: On behalf of the 3,200 organisations worldwide represented on the enclosed statement, we call for the criterion that ‘no target be considered met unless met for all social and economic groups’ to be included in the Declaration of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The enclosed statement demonstrates civil society’s collective commitment to ensure...
23 Jan 2015
Before I was able to open up my shop, I was very dependent on others and always had to ask others for money. Now, I am independent and can manage on my own. I have also noticed that my family and the people in my village have more respect for me now that I am a business woman. Their attitudes to me and my disability have changed and they are now increasingly seeing me for who I am, not simply for my disability, explains Radhika from Baglung in Ne...
17 Dec 2014
Mainstreaming disability inclusion is probably one of the most efficient tools to promote the rights for people with disabilities. The inclusion project in the Atlas Alliance, established to mainstream the inclusion of people with disabilities in development and humanitarian organisations, is workings its way into Norwegian organisations. We are proud to present a brief sum-up of the achievements during the first year of activities....
16 Dec 2014
"If we do not include disabled people in daily life and in times of crisis and conflicts, we fail as civilizations", Mr. Arnt Holte, chairman of the Atlas Alliance said in his opening speech at the Conference People With disabilities in war situations - ignored and forgotten? on December 3. The conference gathered law and humanitarian field experts, representatives from the UNHCR and other international and organisations, politicians and – not...
20 Nov 2014
Niras har på oppdrag fra Norad evaluert norske paraply- og nettverksorganisasjoners bidrag til utviklingssamarbeidet. Rapporten ble lagt frem 28. oktober 2014.
- Rapporten gir en analyse av maktforhold i de landene vi arbeider, men reflekterer ikke over den kamp om ressurser og rettigheter som foregår både der og i Norge. Da blir også anbefalingene for enkle og unyanserte, sa daglig leder Morten Eriksen i sin kommentar da evalueringen ble la...
19 Nov 2014
Welcome to our International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3! Around 4.5 million refugees have a disability. It is a fundamental principle when thinking about human rights that the State has the primary responsibility for protecting and fulfilling the human rights of its citizens. But who is responsible when the State fails to fulfill its duties? What happens with human rights in conflict situations, and how do such situations affe...
26 Jun 2014
Emmanuel Akampurira var en av foredragsholderne under konferansen "Equal rights, equal opportunities" på Litteraturhuset 8. mai....
20 Mar 2014
"Capacity development is of great importance for all groups of persons with disabilities, in order to conduct advocacy work. But I would like to draw attention to a group to whom capacity building means much more, namely people with deaf blindness"...
11 Mar 2014
Persons with disabilities from 13 countries in Africa and representatives of national, sub-regional and Pan-African disabled persons’ organizations (DPOs), gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, the 6-7-8 of March 2014, at the conference “Inclusive post-2015 development agenda and UN CRPD in Africa”....
02 Jun 2011
During the conference on Disability in Conflicts and Emergencies: Reaching the most vulberable, the Atlas Alliance hosted a workshop for NGO representatives. Some of the presentations from this workshop is now available to download here....
